Word: memoirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will try to write as honestly as I can. Lies are all very well in their place but the truth seems to me so much more interesting and proud." Not I, But the Wind is in no sense a great book but it is a convincingly naive memoir, thickly padded with unpublished Lawrence letters, that most Lawrentians will want to read. And, having read it, even Lawrentians may heed the mute nunc dimittis of their master's shade...
...CRUCIFIXION OF LIBERTY-Alexander Kerensky-Day ($2.75). The onetime head of the Russian Government gives his side of the case, not without dust and heat, adding one more stone to the defensive-memoir pile...
Word has been received from the Vatican City that George D. Birkhoff, Perkins Professor of Mathematics, has been awarded the biennial prize of 10,000 lira by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences for his memoir on the systems of differential equations. The prize award was conferred by Pope Plus XI, and in Professor Birkhoff's absence it was accepted for him by Professor Tallio Levi-Civita, member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences...
...master and the man, wholly, alive, with appropriate sentiment. Mr. Keller disclaims all intent of order. One by one, indiscriminately, he picks out the characteristics of his subject and illustrates them with anecdote and incidental background. The result, as we shall see, is something more than a vivid memoir...
...Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a perfectly comprehensible, eminently readable memoir.* It has been approved by the bluestocking Atlantic Monthly (where part of it was serialized), and is sponsored by the Literary Guild. Though it is actually the autobiography of Ger- trude Stein, unwary readers might get all the way to the 310th and last page without discovering the mild hoax. For no author's name is on the title-page, and the book is written as if by Alice B. Toklas herself. But cognoscenti, even if they had not been forewarned by advance publicity, would recognize...